HOW do you do it?
I’m about to just run a Windows VM, why does linux suck so much.
Running a cracked Windows based game on another OS it was never intendes to run on, and complaining the OS is the problem is comical.
BTW, I ran Freelancer (old Microsoft space game !) and I was impressed how well it worked and ran on lutris and all the magic arround it.
Nowadays, people get the habit that everything works out of the box, they just have to “press, swipe, click, that’s it”. Technology litteracy is taking a big hit on newer generation, while being flooded with some kind of “Artificial Intelligence” to do their homework… 😮💨
I would’ve disagreed with this if OP hadn’t said “why does linux suck so much”. But yeah, I hope Bottles or adding the game to Steam worked!
I mean I guess I have to install Microsoft’s crappy OS on the steamdeck. Fuck my life
Not necessarily; try Bottles first and see how that works for you.
No there are solutions. For myself I had to install a few packages Vulkan I think, and then add something via WINE installer. You will find help here and on the web. You basically add the missing components so the Wrong Code works on Linux. Forcing a particular version of Proton comoatibilty ia often the fix. Its not a Linux thing, its a cross compatibility configuration thing.
If you install Windows on the deck you might find it runs worse.
Use Lutris. Install game. Run crack exe in prefix.
If you really need the Steam version, run the crack exe using the launch options.
Lutris is indeed the answer.
Also what is “Run crack exe in prefix” supposed to mean?
Am I too dumb for this?
I haven’t used a PC in the last 5 years so piracy skills go a little rusty, and I’ve always done it on windows, never on linux
There’s a dropdown that lets you pick an exe to run in the wine prefix. The wine prefix is basically the emulated* windows environment that Lutris sets up for the game.
* Wine is not an emulator, but I don’t know what other word to use.
The prefix is where the “windows” system is, the default is a .wine folder on your home folder (if i’m correct), if you enable seeing hidden directories and files it will show.
I downloaded a “pre-installed” version from one of the sites on the megathread here, then I added each of the _redist ".exe"s to lutris, intalled all of them except the dxwebinstaller that didn’t work, tried to run the game on lutris using Proton Experimental again and it failed.
Honestly fuck microsoft too for creating the windows monopoly.
What game are you trying to run? And can you test installing the packages (the .net runtimes and the vcredist) using a wine-staging from lutris and running the game with the wine-staging? You can install it from the download, on the Wine section on the left of lutris.
Not sure if this is rulebreaking tho, its RE4.
Yea something is different now, DirectX did manage to install, but game doesnt work.
Used the wine-staging to install alk of the _redist .exe files again, tried to run the game using wine-10.8-staging-x86_64, doesn’t work, tried Proton Experimental again, and it did have a game crash dialogue box.
Is dxvk and vkd3d enabled in lutris? Maybe bottles will help you if it doesn’t work in lutris. Protondb might be good to see too.
Edit: just saw this, there’s a wine DLL override that might fix the game (in lutris you can config it on the wine configs) dinput8.dll=n,b .
Steam deck problems are not pc user problems.
Install an all in one packages (visual c++, etc) (or this for .net too) into your wine prefix and run the repacks (like fitgirl or dodi) like in windows.
Put dxvk and vkd3d-proton on your wineprefix (automated like with cachyos or manually downloaded) and maybe create a lutris application to just select the exe to install the game.
Edit: Also jc141
Edit 2: Added one link for the .net ones, run the wine cmd for these packages and they autoinstall all the gaming dependencies, so you can install almost any games. Also, you can install dependencies (like those needed by some games like skyrim) using winetricks.
Edit 3: Updated the link
I’m just here to say to all the people here saying to follow a simple tutorial and everything is sunshine and rainbows on the Deck to go away forever.
I’ve been using various Linux distros or a flavor of BSD as my main driver OS for twenty years and just the endeavor to install simple Skyrim mods on the Steam Deck drives me insane.
I spent the entire month of July trying to unsuccessfully install Gate to Sovngarde mod collection and gave up because it almost becamea full-time job after my real job just trying to troubleshoot. One try in Windows in less than an hour wait and I’m playing it fine.
Sometimes it’s fine to yell to the world “fuck Linux”
